V. I. Lenin

Decision of the C.P.C. Concerning the Employment of Saboteurs {1}

The Council of People’s Commissars resolves that no negotiations whatever are to be carried on with saboteurs.

Therespective People’s Commissariats may employ, as individuals, such
saboteurs whose services are considered essential for the various
departments provided that they fully submit to Soviet power and support
it.

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Notes:
{1}
This decision was passed by the C.P.C. at its meeting on January 31
(February 13), 1918, on the report of Y. M. Sverdlov concerning the
elimination of sabotage by former government officials.